radfemart:

radfemart:

I appreciate the sentiment but I don’t get all those “we made it to the longest night of the year! the light will start returning soon! it’s all uphill from here & we’re halfway there!” posts because like. Oct-Dec is the easier half of Winter. Jan-Apr is way harder. there’s no big holidays or decorations, everyone is kind of over the whole Cozy Hygge Sweaters & Cocoa vibe so they’re just tired & restless instead, and the whole thing is so drawn out & uneventful that it feels like it lasts 10x longer

the cold season Oct-Dec:

the cold season Jan-Apr:

it’s why we need the reminder of how there is technically less of winter ahead of us than behind us

the palpable evidence of that is so meager and useless, we can only keep going by reminding ourselves of the hard cold mathematics of it

it’s the only thing that feels real at all, right now